Raspberry Pi Goes Into Manufacturing – Yippee!
It’s finally coming! Raspberry Pi has now officially started manufacture of the first production boards. See http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/509 for details. Sadly, you can also see there why the...
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The Dangers of Cheap USB Hubs
As a Raspberry Pi user, I figured I needed a USB hub to allow me to connect stuff (that’s a technical term by the way) to my Pi without overloading the two on board USB ports as these are limited to a...
View ArticleGive Your Raspberry Pi Turbo Mode
And while you are at it, no warranty problems when you do so! An announcement on the Raspberry Pi Foundation web site, read it here, explains that it is now possible to use Turbo mode on your Raspberry...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi Sound
Want to know how to redirect the sound from your Pi to either the HDMI or to the headphone socket? Read on … Update – 11 February 2013 I’ve written a small command line utility – PiSound – to control...
View ArticleGertboard Parts List
The Gertboard doesn’t come supplied with a parts list that you can cross reference. I created one for myself, and discovered a missing component which Farnell quickly replaced the very next day –...
View ArticleBackup & Check a Raspberry Pi SD Card
Ever wanted to backup your Raspberry Pi’s SD card, but didn’t know who to ask? Me too. Read on …. The first thing to remember is that you should really always have a backup of your SD card. In theory...
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It’s Not a PiBow, It’s a Raspberry PiBoard!
Having a Raspberry Pi is fun, but like the days of my ZX-81, Spectrum and QL (I see a Sinclair habit there!) you get all sorts of bits hanging off and making it all look untidy. Here’s how to fit a...
View ArticleNOOBS For Raspberry Pi
NOOBS is the latest user friendly installation system from the Raspberry Pi. It allows you the ability to choose one of 6 (currently) Operating Systems to run on your Pi. You can pick and choose and...
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Beginner’s Guide to Arch Linux on the Raspberry Pi
The ARCH Linus distro for the Raspberry Pi is not the normal one used by the masses, but the benefits of ARCH are good in that it is a rolling release distro. That means, you never have to reinstall it...
View ArticleBeginner’s Guide to Arch Linux on the Raspberry Pi – Part 2
Continuing with the setting up and such like, using Arch Linux on the Raspberry Pi. This is the second blog post on the subject. In the previous posting, we managed to set up our locales, languages,...
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Raspberry Pi, PiZero, Raspbian Jessie, Networking and WiFi Setup
With a title like that, I should get some hits! Note: Updated 8th February to cover the new Raspberry Pi 3 with built in WiFi and Bluetooth. Since Jessie came along, networking have changed slightly,...
View ArticleDoes Your Raspberry Pi 3 Lose WiFi Connections After a While?
If you find that your Raspberry Pi 3, the new one (at the time of writing anyway!) with built in WiFi and Bluetooth, loses the WiFi connection after a period of inactivity, then this thread on the...
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